Valentin Haüy
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Valentin Haüy was the founder, in 1785, of the first school for the blind, the Institute for Blind Youth in Paris. In 1819, Louis Braille entered this school.
Statue at the Institut national des jeunes aveugles
Grave of Valentin Haüy and René Just Haüy
René Just Haüy
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René Just Haüy FRS MWS FRSE was a French priest and mineralogist, commonly styled the Abbé Haüy after he was made an honorary canon of Notre Dame. Due to his innovative work on crystal structure and h
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…1806, he moved to St. Petersburg, to found a school at the request of Alexander I of Russia. He returned to Paris, in 1817, to live with his brother, René Just Haüy, who is considered a founder of modern mineralogy. He is buried, with his brother René, in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris…
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Pearwood model of rock crystal rhomboid, made by René-Just Haüy, Teylers Museum
Integrant molecules form a pentagonal dodecahedron of pyrite, Traité de minéralogie (1801)
Haüy with a contact goniometer, ca. 1812